A pessimistic optimist’s journey through learning, teaching and technology
The following is an attempt to build a bit more on an earlier idea around the use of learning analytics. It’s an attempt to frame a different approach to the use of learning analytics and to share these ideas in preparation for a potential project. In part, the project is based on the assumption that
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The following is an early attempt to formulate a method by which learning analytics could be used to make a “Golf GTI”. The context for this is an attempt to develop a grant application for an OLT grant. Standing on the shoulders of giants This work has to build on earlier work, especially work funded
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What follows is some reflection on forward thinking about the Pre-Service Teacher Network (#pstn) project. Bits of this may end up in a paper destined for the PLE Conference 2012 My story 2010 was an interesting year for me. After almost two decades as a University academic, first within Information Technology and then in e-learning
Or, an attempt to share some thinking about the idea behind an – almost obligatory – application for external funding. The car analogy A few weeks ago one of my neighbours up the road had left the lights of his ageing Mitsubishi Magna on. They were on all night. As an older car – arguably
I’m definitely in need of a “customer relationship management” (CRM) system for the Learning Management System (LMS). Any suggestions? I’m back teaching at University for the first time in a while. For the course I’m teaching there are 200+ students for whom I’m the “teacher”. 170 of these are “online” students, which means they rarely
For various reasons I am feeling frustrated with the inertia of systems. I work at a place where the Managed Operating Environment must retain an old version of the Internet Explorer web browser because their massive, expensive, not so user friendly Enterprise Resource Planning System has a web interface that isn’t compatible with more recent
The following is a slightly edited version of a internal grant application that has just been funded. It is a small step towards actually moving the Indicators project a little further toward the targets we talked about so many years ago. My co-investigators on this grant are: Colin Beer and Professor Patrick Danaher. One of
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